Museo Egizio di Torino

The Egyptian Museum was founded in 1824 with the acquisition by Carlo Felice di Savoia a large collection assembled by Bernardino Drovetti that, serving under Napoleon Bonaparte, went to Egypt to become French consul. The "Drovetti collection" included 5,268 artifacts of great quality and was deposited along with other Egyptian antiquities already gathered at the seventeenth-century building that still houses the museum. At the beginning of '900, a new archaeological expedition led by Ernesto Schiaparelli allowed the acquisition of more than 25,000 artifacts.

Outside Egypt, this museum is the only one in the world to be dedicated exclusively to art and Egyptian culture: its collections testify to a time span of over 4,000 years and are considered to be of great quality and wealth with which to tell a of the most fascinating civilizations of the past. For this reason, the Egyptian Museum of Turin is considered the most important in the world after Cairo.

In 2009 the Egyptian Museum started an important project for the widening of the spaces and to a definite enhancement of its collections according to modern museological museological criteria. During the works the museum will always be open and the inauguration of the New Egyptian Museum is planned for 2015: a historic day that will confirm the meaning of the famous phrase of Jean-François Champollion deciphered hieroglyphics.